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Job Area: Engineering Group, Engineering Group Hardware Engineering General Summary: As a leading technology innovator, Qualcomm pushes the boundaries of what's possible to enable next-generation experiences and drives digital transformation to help create a smarter, connected future for all. As a Qualcomm Hardware Engineer, you will plan, design, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems, bring-up yield, circuits, mechanical systems, Digital/Analog/RF/optical systems, equipment and packaging, test systems, FPGA, and/or DSP systems that launch cutting-edge, world class products. Qualcomm Hardware Engineers collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop solutions and meet performance requirements. Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 6+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. ORMaster's degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 5+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience. ORPhD in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of Hardware Engineering or related work experience.Qualcomm's SoC Validation Team (SVE - System SOC/silicon Validation) is part of the central SoC digital hardware organization responsible for the overall quality of the SoC silicon. The Validation team works closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, software engineers, and customers.We are looking for self-motivated engineers who will be part of bare-metal SoC validation team and will have the following responsibilities. Responsibilities Design, develop, debug system/IP validation framework to be used in bare-metal and light-weight-RTOS environment for SoC validation in one of the areas mentioned below Understand the SoC architecture, new features and prepare test plan Develop/port/enhance system validation content based on system level use cases, low power use cases, find HW bugs and root cause them Interface with Design/Verification/Software/Customer Engineering teams for test plan and debugs Interface with various IP validation team and cross functional teams(Design/Verification/SW) for test plan creation and debug complex issues Use silicon debug hooks to measure power/performance/coverage and other KPI metrics Manage a team of silicon validation team members Minimum Qualification : Bachelor's/Master"s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering/Computer Science or related field 11+ years of working experience in SOC validation (Candidates with less experience with good academics from premier institutes can also be considered) Mandatory Skills: Good knowledge and understanding of Embedded SW architecture and development in C, C++, Assembly C language expertise for low level programming, assembly language for any processor, C-assembly interworking Hands on end to end experience in one or more of the IP validation flow from architecture review, testplan creation, testcases development, execution, debugsCPUSS, DDRSS, Multimedia (Camera, Video, Display, GPU) blocks Good Experience in working closely with Design/Verification/Arch/Customer Engineering teams for IP/SOC validation planning, execution and debugs Good knowledge of ARM/X86/PowerPC CPU architecture, Interrupt handling, Cache coherency, IO Coherency Good knowledge of SoC architecture having Multicore/Multiprocessor with SMP/heterogenous cores, memory management, CPU concepts Having experience of managing team members as people manager Compiler/LinkerProficient in using compilers and linkers such as GCC, CLANG, RVDS, LLVM, Experience in optimizing code and resolving linker issues to ensure efficient and error free builds Experience in using JTAG interfaces and tools for debugging SOC/silicon design issues Scripting languages such as Python, shell scripting etc. Desired Skills Exposure to SoC architecture paradigms " interconnects, power management, emulation(pre-Si) environment Exposure to working on emulation/pre-si environment is added advantage Experience working with boot code for ARM processors Knowledge of Operating systems/RTOS/Linux kernel internals, multithreading, scheduling policies/locking mechanism, Virtual memory/MMU/paging etc Software development for silicon enablement, silicon validation, design issue debugs Board Bring-up/Bring-up of hardware-software solution on FPGA/emulation platforms and on fresh SOC designs Exposure to build automationExperience with build automations tools such as Jenkins and experience in creating automated build pipelines to stream line the development process Exposure to Regression testingUnderstanding of the regression testing methodologies and tools. Ability to design, implement and execute comprehensive regression test suites to ensure software quality and stability Code ReviewsAbility to conduct thorough and constructive code reviews to maintain code quality, ensure best practices and identify the areas of improvements
